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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 46

When they had finished the king’s son drew an apple from his pocket, and cut it into a big half and a little half, and offered both to the stranger, who took the biggest bit.

Who acts: apples, finished son, stranger · What happens: finish, draw, cut, offer, take · To what, where: apple, pocket, big half, both, stranger, biggest bit

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apples, finished son, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

advmodnsubjauxamoddetnmod:posscasensubjdetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccparataxisobjcasedetamodoblccdetamodconjpunctccconjobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjpunctrootWhenADVtheyPRONhadAUXfinishedVERBtheDETkingNOUN’sPARTsonNOUNdrewVERBanDETappleNOUNfromADPhisPRONpocketNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJcutVERBitPRONintoADPaDETbigADJhalfNOUNandCCONJaDETlittleADJhalfNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJofferedVERBbothDETtoADPtheDETstrangerNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONtookVERBtheDETbiggestADJbitNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 finishedadvmod
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 finishednsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 finishedaux
4finishedfinishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 sonamod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 kingdet
6kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing8 sonnmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 kingcase
8sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing9 drewnsubj
9drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 appledet
11appleappleNOUNNumber=Sing9 drewobj
12fromfromADP_14 pocketcase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 pocketnmod:poss
14pocketpocketNOUNNumber=Sing9 drewobl
15,,PUNCT_17 cutpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 cutcc
17cutcutVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 drewparataxis
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 cutobj
19intointoADP_22 halfcase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 halfdet
21bigbigADJDegree=Pos22 halfamod
22halfhalfNOUNNumber=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac17 cutobl
23andandCCONJ_26 halfcc
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 halfdet
25littlelittleADJDegree=Pos26 halfamod
26halfhalfNOUNNumber=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac22 halfconj
27,,PUNCT_29 offeredpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 offeredcc
29offeredofferVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 cutconj
30bothbothDETPronType=Tot29 offeredobj
31totoADP_33 strangercase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 strangerdet
33strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing29 offeredobl
34,,PUNCT_36 tookpunct
35whowhoPRONPronType=Rel36 tooknsubj
36tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 strangeracl:relcl
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 bitdet
38biggestbigADJDegree=Sup39 bitamod
39bitbitNOUNNumber=Sing36 tookobj
40..PUNCT_9 drewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1finishpast · perfectapples = applevn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2drawpastthe king's finished sona appleson's pocketvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
3cutpastpocketa big half and a little halfvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into half=Product
4offerpastbothto the stranger goalvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent both=Theme to stranger=Goal
5takepastthe strangerthe biggest bitvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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